Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-08


the sinner loses heaven, by procrastina-
ton. see all around me the destitute
and suffering families of parents who
meant some day to attend to this Chris
tien duty. During the process Of ad-
iournment the man gets his feet wet,
then comes chill and delirium and the
doleful shake of the doctors head, and
the obsequies. II there be ANYTHING more
pitia5le than woman delicstely brought
up, and on her marriage day by an indul-
gent father given to man 10 whom she
is the chief Joy ana pride Of life until the
the moment Of his death, and then that
same woman going out with helpless
children at her back to
sTUGGLE FOR BREAD
in world where brawny muscle and
rugged soul are neCessary-I say, if there
be anything more pltisble than that. Go
not know what it is. And vet there are
good women who are Indifferent in re
gard to their husbands duty in this
respect; and there are those posi-
! lively hostile, ss though q life insurance
subjected man to some fatality. There
is in Brooklyn to-day very poor woman
keeping q small candy shop, VINO yehe-
mcntly opposed the insurance Of her hus-
bands life, and when application had
been made for e policy OF $4,000 she
| frustrated it. Size would never have a
document in tie house taat implied It
was possible for her husband ever to
! die. One DAY, IN quick revolution Of
machinery, his life was instantly dashed
out. WHAT is the sequel? She is,
with annoying tug, making the half
Of 2 miserable living, Her two children
have been taken sway from her in order
that they may be clothed ana schooled,
and her If Is 20 be prolonged hard-
ship. 0 man, before forty-eight hours
have passed away, appear at the desk Of
some Of our great life insurance com
IpanieS, have the stethescODe Of the ply
stefan put TO your heart and lungs, and
by the seal OF some honest company de-
cree that your children shall not be sub
j9ctcd to the humiliation of financial
struggle in the days of your demise.
But | must ask the men engaged IN
life insurance business whether they
feel the Importance of their trust, and
charge them l must inst they need Di-
vine grace to help them in their work.
10 THIS day, when there are 50 many riv-
Aries in your line Of business, you will
be tempted to overstate the amount of
your assets, and the extent of the sur
; abuse
t6a franchise Of the company, and make
up the deficits OF one year by adding
some OF the receipts of another year
and you will be tempted 10 send out
MEAN, ANONYMOUS CIRCULARS
derogatory 20 other companies, torgatful
of the fact that anonymous communica-
tions means only two things: the coWar-
dice OF the author ana the inetiicjency of
tn police in allowing such thing to be
dated anywhere save inside of q peniten-
tiary. Under the mighty pressure many
have gone down, and you will follow
them if you have too much confidence in
yourself, and do not appeal to the Lord
for positive help. But if any of you belong
to that miscTeant class of people, who
!, without any financial ability, orgsniz-
themselves into what they call life in
suranCe company, with 8 pretended CAPT
tai Of $500 900 or $500 900, then vote
yourself into the lucrative position, and
, then take al the premiums for your
: self, and then, st the approach
Of the state uperintendent, drop all into
: the hands of those life insurance under
takers whose business it is to gather III
TIE remains of defunCt organizations anC
bury them in their own vault-then, | say
you had better get out Of the business
and Cisgorge the widows houses yor
have swallowed. But my word is 20 al
those who are legitimately engaged in the
business: You ought to be better thar
D other men, not only because Of the re
D sp0nsibilities that rest upon you, but be
$ cause the truth IS ever confronting yOr
, that your stay on earn is uncertain, enC
g your life matter Of few devs or wears
NJ Il -.
S come into your Office make YOU think
G Does not the doctors certificate on the
S death claim give you g thrill? You
g periodicals, your advertisements, anl
e even the Iithography OF your policies
4 warn you that yOu are mortal. ACCordiD!
} to your own showing the chances tina
p you will die this year are st least pc
/ cent Are you prepared for the tremen
e man in the Judgment Day will be the un
t prepared
Z LIFE INSURANCE MAN,
0 for the simple reason that his whole bust
e ness was connected with human exit, an,
he cannot say az did not think" Hi
/ whole business was to think on that CD
e thing. O, my brother, get insured 70
i eternity. Ia consideration of what Chris
= mas Done III your pouaH, nave TIE lCuen
l ture this day made out, signed and scale,
with the red seal of the cross
/ But l have words of encouragement ant
D comfort for those of my hearers who ar
e engaged in the ire insurance business
y You are ordained by God to stand be
n tween Us and the NEST raging element o
: nature. We Sre indebted to you for wha
y the national board of underwriters an,
g the convention Of the chiefs OF the fire de
d partment hs e effected through you
T. suggestions, and through your encour
/ agement We are indebted to you TO
e what we have effected in the constructor
{; of buildings, and in the change in tn
e habits OF our cities; so that by sClentifl
;, principles orderly companies eXtinguis
d the fire, instead of the old-time riot
d which used to eXtinguish the citizens
g And we sre indebted to you for the sue
IS cessful demands you have made for tn
q repeal of unjust laws-tor the battle yo
e have waged against inCendisrism and ar
81 son-for the fatal blow you hsve given t
the theory that corporations have n
souls, by the cheerfulness and prompt
" tude with which you have met Iosse:
It from which you might have escape
Il through the technicality of the law. l d
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